In the cramped bedroom, thick smoke billowed and irritated the throat and lungs with every breath. Link's consciousness gradually blurred, he was just a recent college graduate, he finally found a job that would make ends meet, today is the end of a tiring day, go home and play the game "Neverwinter Night" to relax, who knows that playing and playing suddenly the computer caught fire, he missed the best escape time in order to fight the fire, when he found that he couldn't do anything and wanted to escape, the flames had spread throughout the bedroom, in the thick smoke Link had been unable to distinguish the direction, and finally, with more and more harmful gases exhaled, Link finally lost consciousness.

Boundless darkness enveloped Link, who floated in the endless void as if he had no body. Suddenly, a faint red light appeared from a distance, like the afterglow of the setting sun, and Link desperately drifted towards the red light, trying to get rid of this floating state and unspeakable darkness.

The red light was getting closer and brighter, and the darkness around him seemed to be dispelled, and as the red light shone brightly, Link felt that he had regained a little strength, and couldn't help but get closer to the red light more desperately.

Eventually, Link stepped into the red light, and the dazzling red light dispelled the darkness around him, and instantly faded, leaving only a bright starlight.

"Ahh Link sat up from the bed, gasping for breath, and regained consciousness as his pounding heart slowly stabilized. "Is this in the hospital?" but when Link looked in front of him, the unfamiliar sight froze Link.

There were no spacious and bright wards and snow-white beds, and the skins and skins under his body were all unknown, exuding an unpleasant smell, Link hurriedly stood up and looked around, it was a cloth tent made of wood and unknown animal bones, but there was a hole left above it as a cigarette mouth, and directly below was a stone fire pit with some kind of animal dung and hay burning in it, exuding a more unpleasant smell than the animal skin covered on his body, and there was a small iron pot on the fire pit, and something was boiling. A crate was set aside, on which were a few clay pots for drinking, and around the tent hung a few dull tapestries, and he had a worn-out scimitar in his hand.

Everything was so unfamiliar, Link couldn't tell where he was, and a constant feeling of weakness in his body made Link even more upset.

"This isn't a hospital, what the hell is it? Thoughts stirred through Link's mind, and the panic grew stronger, and Link vaguely felt that his trouble was much bigger than being burned and hospitalized.

Link instinctively held his forehead with his hand, but was shocked to find that it didn't feel right, Link put his hand in front of his eyes and observed it carefully, and found that his hands that should be slender and delicate had become rough, and calluses had also grown on his palms and index fingers, and then touched his face, which was far from his original self, "It's really crossed." Link thought depressedly.

At this moment, the exit of the tent was lifted, and a woman wearing a long robe and a turban that completely covered her face and showed only her eyes walked in.

"You're awake. The woman with the light white turban said calmly. It was a strange language, but Link understood it smoothly. Link stared at the woman, unable to tell the woman's age and appearance from her appearance, "Muslim?" Link nodded pretentiously, and was about to ask, when the woman stared at Link with her shining blue eyes and preemptively said, "Since you're awake, let's go to the sacrifice, and worry about other things later." With that, he walked outside, and Link followed her out of the tent blankly, "What's the matter, it looks like there's trouble." ”

In such a strange situation, Link didn't want to follow the woman, but if he didn't go outside to get more information, he couldn't judge the current situation.

As soon as he got out of the tent, a wave of heat hit, making Link's eyes dark, his steps staggered, and the woman stood calmly waiting for Link to recover, and after a while, Link came to his senses and looked around.

There is also a circle of light white tents around, which look a little black under the baptism of the years, there are few people around, all of them are walking in one direction, all of them are wearing light-colored linen robes and straw sandals, women are wearing headscarves, and their faces and hair are firmly wrapped, and the men are not wearing headscarves, they are all dark eyebrows and high eyes, dark brown skin, brown hair color, blue and green pupil color, obviously Western race.

Link looked at himself, the same light linen robe and straw sandals. At this time, Link was stunned when he saw the distance. On the periphery of the tent were a field of trees, some of which still bore fruit and looked like wild apricots. Beyond the trees was a field of low shrubs and sparse grass, and beyond that, the fiery red sun was setting in mid-air, and below it was an endless stretch of sand dunes. The dunes were dyed golden by the intense sunlight, and in the distance were a few mountains that were not really visible under the heatwave

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Feel the heat in the air, smell the stench of livestock coming from nowhere, and look at the golden sand dunes in several directions. "Oasis. Link couldn't help but say bitterly.

"Strange bodies, strange languages, nomads, deserts and oases. Could it be that I have traveled to the Middle East in ancient times? I think it is ancient, after all, I haven't seen anything modern, I just don't know what era I have traveled to. Link thought confusedly.

Link followed the woman's heavy footsteps as he walked forward, and when he reached his destination, Link couldn't help but breathe heavily, and then sighed dejectedly.

In front of him is a small lake, about the size of an artificial lake in the community in the previous life, and there are two or three hundred people standing in front of the lake, men, women and children. Everyone was shouting something feverishly. There were two people standing in front of them, behind them was a wooden cross, a man in leather armor, with a scimitar in his hand, a brown face dripping with a little sweat, in his forties, with a high nose and deep eyebrows, looking very resolute. The other man was an old man, with gray hair, muttering something in his mouth, but his eyes were not focused and staring at one place in a daze, which looked very strange. If these two people are normal, then the things tied to the cross are obviously abnormal, a humanoid lizard, obviously a green lizard, but with human-shaped thick limbs, green claws are very sharp, covered with green scale armor, dragging a crocodile-like slender tail, dejectedly tied to the cross, life and death are unknown.

Link looked at the monster on the cross, his mind was very confused, "Lizardmen? This shouldn't be the ancient Middle East, right? Or is this an ancient creature, extinct in modern times, and modern people don't know?"

At this moment, the shouts of the crowd reached their peak, and one of the short black thin men was the most fanatical, jumping back and forth excitedly, and making some strange noises loudly in his mouth, driving the emotions of several warriors around him, causing Link to frequently turn sideways glances and notice Link's attention, and the black thin man smiled at Link meaninglessly, revealing snow-white teeth that were completely different from his skin.

When Link didn't know whether to smile at the thin black man, the tied lizardman woke up, and Link stopped worrying and hurriedly focused on the change of events.

The lizardman roared loudly, revealing sharp teeth and a forked tongue, and the reptilian yellow pupils contracted violently in emotion. The middle-aged warrior in front of him drew his scimitar and shouted loudly, smiling and stabbing the scimitar in his hand into the lizardman's soft belly without scale armor, and stirring it a few times. The lizardman's body shook violently, and then struggled even more.

The middle-aged warrior retreated at this time, and the white-bearded old man on the side stepped forward, gesturing with complex gestures with both hands, muttering obscure and strange syllables in his mouth, and then waved his hand down fiercely.

A translucent black sphere suddenly appeared in front of the lizardman, and then turned into countless black translucent spikes, quickly piercing the lizardman's chest. Although the spikes did not cause wounds, the screams and violently trembling bodies of the lizardmen showed that the spikes were clearly not harmless.

After the spike pierced, the lizardman's chest was covered with a strange red light, and then the red light disappeared into the lizardman's chest. Only the lizardman was left with his head bowed in despair, and in the cheers of the crowd, the middle-aged warrior stepped forward and pulled out the scimitar on the lizardman, bringing out a dull stream of blood, and the lizardman muttered a few times weakly in his mouth, and his slender tail slapped the ground a few times, and then his head tilted and died.

Link stared at all this in a daze: "This is not the ancient Middle East, this is a fantasy world with magic and monsters. ”

When Link was stunned, another unconscious captive was escorted up by two men wearing leather armor and waist scimitars, seeing the appearance of this captive, Link was stunned, the upper body of the captive was a beautiful woman, with long brown wavy hair, three-dimensional facial features, a high nose bridge, straight breasts, and graceful waist, but the lower body from below the slender waist, there was a thick snake tail, blue scales the size of a palm, reflecting a magnificent light in the light of the setting sun.

The woman was wearing black leather armor, the leather armor was torn, and there was a trickle of blood in some places, as if the men's rough movements had pulled the wound, the woman's originally closed eyes began to tremble, and Sakura's lips also let out a cry of pain, as if she was about to wake up.

Link looked at the woman's half-human, half-snake appearance, and was a little surprised: "Snake demon?" Hearing Link's whisper, the masked woman who had been by her side looked at Link in disbelief, her body shook twice, and she seemed to be amused by Link's words, and the woman said in a strange tone: "It's a noble human lion." ”

"A human lion, or a nobleman?" Link muttered in a low voice, looking at the snake tail of the half-snake woman, Link wondered in his heart, where does this look like a lion?

Just when Link was secretly wondering in his heart, the aristocratic human lion finally woke up, first observed the surrounding situation in a sluggish manner, and after finding himself in the situation, the human lion was furious, and subconsciously wanted to resist, but was hit by the two warriors on guard with a scabbard and hit the wound fiercely, the human lion couldn't help but lower his body, and let out a painful roar from his mouth.

Looking at the struggling human lion, Link's heart was filled with sympathy, unlike the lizard monster he killed before, this half-human, half-snake beauty is very in line with the aesthetics of modern people, coupled with the legend of Nuwa Fuxi in ancient China, so that Link has no bad feelings for this beauty, but is full of sympathy, in Link's eyes, the tribe he is in is more like a barbarian! But now Link obviously can't do anything.

The human lion began to struggle again, and its tightly bound hands made it unable to use the human lion's spell-like ability, but the human lion could not give up resistance, death was not terrible for the human lion, death was just a return to the side of the dark lord Grazt, and every human lion should be proud of it, but if the evil god sacrificed to them by the savage desert people was different, it meant that the eternal sinking of the soul was a thousand times more terrifying than death.

Feeling his body getting weaker and weaker due to his injuries, and thinking of the task he was carrying, the human lion sighed and made his final choice.